By Dr. Shiv Dwivedi
Oct. 21, 2017
What is Pain
Pain is an uncomfortable feeling that tells you something may be wrong. It can be steady, throbbing, stabbing, aching, pinching, or described in many other ways. Sometimes, it’s just a nuisance, like a mild headache. Other times it can be debilitating.
Pain can bring about other physical symptoms, like nausea, dizziness, weakness or drowsiness. It can cause emotional effects like anger, depression, mood swings or irritability. Perhaps most significantly, it can change your lifestyle and impact your job, relationships and independence.
Pain is classified as either acute or chronic. Acute pain is usually severe and short - lived, and is often a signal that your body has been injured. Chronic pain can range from mild to severe, is present for long periods of time, and is often the result of a disease that may require ongoing treatment.
Currently, the best way to treat the pain is to manage the symptoms. If the source of your pain can’t be treated, or isn’t known, our pain medicine specialists can offer options for pain control.
Examples of pain conditions which can be treated by Ayurveda
- Sciatica
- Sprains
- Accute fissure
- Perianal abscess
- Cellulitis
- Gout (vata Rakta)
- Amavata (R.A.)
- Planter fasciitis or calcanial spur
- Fracture
- Osteoarthritis
- Vrana sopha
- Cevical spondilitis
- Strain
- External piles
- Varicose vein
- Appendicitis
- Renal stone & uretric stone
- Soph18 - frozen shoulder
- Corn
- Prolaps of intervertibral disc
- Back pain
- Dislocation of joint
- Migrane
- Glucoma
- Burn
- Sinusitis
- Fistula
- Epididymitis
- Bursitis
- DVT
- Conjunctivitis
- Inflammed externointernal pile
Other pain full conditions.
- Low back pain
- Spinal stenosis
- Vertebral Compression Fractures
- Cervical and lumbar facet joint disease
- Sciatica/Radiculopathy
- Sacroiliac joint disease
- Neuropathic (Nerve) pain
- Head pain / Occipital neuralgia (Scalp/head pain)
- Intercostals neuralgia (Rib pain)
- Peripheral neuropathy (Diabetic nerve pain)
- Complex regional pain syndrome (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy - RSD)
- Neck pain
- Shoulder and knee arthritic pain (osteoarthritis)
- Myofascial (Muscular) pain
- Post surgical pain
- Cancer pain (pancreatic, colorectal, lung, breast, bone)
- Pain from peripheral vascular disease
- Anginal pain (chest pains)
- Post - herpetic neuralgia (shingles pain)
- Nerve entrapment syndromes
- Spastisticy related syndromes/ pain
- Spinal Cord Injury (central pain)
- Pelvic pain
- There are different types of pain. Acute pain is a type of pain that typically lasts less than 3 to 6 months, or pain that is directly related to soft tissue damage such as a sprained ankle or a paper cut.
